Myanmar Era

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Myanmar Era is the traditional lunisolar calendar system historically used in Myanmar for marking years, religious festivals, and cultural events.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Myanmar Era canonical 2
Burmese era 1
Myanmar Era (ME) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural heritage of Myanmar
lunisolar calendar
traditional calendar system
alignsWith solar year via intercalation
alsoKnownAs Burmese calendar
Burmese calendar
surface form: Myanmar calendar
calendarType lunisolar
countryUsedIn Myanmar
culturalSignificance central to Burmese religious life
framework for traditional festivals
eraStartLocation Sri Ksetra
eraStartYearGregorianApprox 638
governingDiscipline Burmese astrology
hasComponent lunar months
solar year
hasFeature leap years with intercalary month
variable month lengths
hasIntercalaryDay extra day in certain years
hasIntercalaryMonth second Waso
hasMonthCount 12 regular months
historicallyUsedFor astrological almanacs
inscriptions
royal chronicles
influencedBy Buddhist calendrical traditions
Hindu calendar systems
Indian lunisolar calendars
majorFestivalDeterminedBy Tazaungdaing
Thadingyut
Thingyan
Waso
primaryReligionAssociated Theravada
surface form: Theravada Buddhism
relationshipToGregorianCalendar coexists with Gregorian calendar in modern Myanmar
stillUsedFor horoscopes
religious observances
traditional holidays
timeUnit day
month
year
usedByEthnicGroups Bamar
Mon
Arakan
surface form: Rakhine

Shan (with variants)
usedFor Buddhist ceremonies
astrological purposes
cultural events
marking years
religious festivals
yearNumbering counts years from traditional Burmese epoch

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Burmese calendar alsoKnownAs Myanmar Era
Burmese calendar eraName Myanmar Era
Wagaung calendarEra Myanmar Era
this entity surface form: Myanmar Era (ME)
Pyatho timeSystem Myanmar Era
this entity surface form: Burmese era